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Past tense of resound

regular verb

The past tense of resound is resounded. The past participle is also resounded.

Forms of resound

Base form (V1)resound /ɹɪˈzaʊnd/
Past tense (V2)resounded /ɹɪˈzaʊndɪd/
Past participle (V3)resounded /ɹɪˈzaʊndɪd/
Present participleresounding /ɹɪˈzaʊn.dɪŋ/
Third person singularresounds

Resounded in a sentence

  • The street resounded with the noise of the children’s game.
  • The sound of the brass band resounded through the town.
  • Those Turks who stopped to argue, argue no more. `Advance, Australia!' resounded through the bushes. `Into the cows!1916, John Butler Cooper, Coo-oo-ee!, page 262. From the entry bog in
  • The two kendōkas were engaged in a fierce duel, and the wooden swords they held with both hands quivered with each clash of blades that resounded across the gym.2025, Ethan Cole, “Kendo Gym”, in Peerless Genius System, volume I. From the entry kendōka
  • So he was, but he was also repeating that passionate liberal critique which had resounded, often fortissimo, in British debate when Indian nationalism was still a half-formed dream.2017 September 7, Ferdinand Mount, “Umbrageousness”, in London Review of Books. From the entry fortissimo

Meaning of resound

  1. verb To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.
  2. verb Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo.
  3. verb To praise or spread the fame of (someone or something) with the voice or the sound of musical instruments; to celebrate, to extol; also, to declare (someone) to be a certain thing.

Full definition of resound

Questions about the past tense of resound

What is the past tense of resound?
The past tense of resound is resounded.
What is the past participle of resound?
The past participle of resound is resounded.
Is resound a regular or irregular verb?
Resound is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: resound (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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